Lifting-handle



UNITED STATES PATNT @FICE JOS. B. SARGENT, OF NEI/V BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

LIFTING-I-IANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 21,981, dated November 2, 1858.

To altwhom it may concern.'

Be 1t known that I, JOSEPH B. SARGENT, of

New Britain, in the county of I-Iartford and a part of this specification.

Figure l is the plate of the handle as I cast it, having projections A A at the top, and a shoulder at C, O. Fig. 2 is the handle having hooked projections at D, D. Fig. 3 is the handle and plate placed together, ready to be fastened together. Fig. t is the handle and plate fastened together ready for use.

By casting the plate (Fig. l), as described above, in any malleable metal, and the handle (Fig. 2) in any metal, and placing them together as in Fig. 3, and bending the top of the plate downward around the handle, so that the projections A, A, will rest on the shoulders O, O, the handle is secured to the plate; and in being used the projections D D will strike upon the projections A A, holding them firmly in the proper place, and besides, preventing the handle from being raised above its proper position-(say) at a position perpendicular, or at right angles with the plate, as in Fig. 4t.

The advantages of my invention are the following: lst, a saving of metal in the plate that has heretofore been drilled out for a socket for the handle; or, saving the labor of coring the socket. 2d, a saving of the labor of drilling the socket. 3d, a great addition to the strength of the handle; as my invention admits the use of a handle in one continuous piece or ring, while all previous methods have required the handle to be open in order to get it into the socket, and then forced together.

I am aware that handles have been made with projections similar to D, D, for the purpose of striking on the plate to prevent the handle from being raised above its proper position when in use. I therefore do not claim as my invent-ion the projections D, D, nor their striking on the plate; but

'Vhat I claim as my invention and desire to obtain Letters Patent for is- A lifting handle with the plate cast in any metal that can be bent, having the socket formed in the manner herein described, and operating in connection with the handle as specified, the whole being an improved article of manufacture.

JOSEPH B. SARGENT.

fitnesses S. C. NORTHROP, JAMES DEMPSEY. 

